![]() ![]() Although there are some wonderful chapters about the faro in Marlo, Elmsley, and Expert Card Technique, to my knowledge there was no one exclusive resource that covered all three aspects. The knowledge consisted of three categories: a) the mechanical information necessary to actually accomplish the shuffle, b) the properties of the shuffle that make it useful, and c) how to put those properties to work in magic effects. You didn’t know where it was going to turn up. Some of the sources were easily available and some of the sources were not. Those starting the journey of learning the faro shuffle have always had to be like mosaic quilters taking patches from here and patches from there, piecing together the knowledge. ![]() First, because Greg was the man to do it, and second, because it was such an obvious gap in the literature that it was startling that no one had thought about it before. (Full disclosure: I gladly did some proofreading on this as well as the earlier books.) And I’m happy to say that book has now come to fruition, Faro Fundamentals. What he had in mind was a small book, 52 pages to be exact-a monograph, for the more precise among us-on the faro shuffle. When I heard what Greg was up to this time, I was filled with joy in a completely different way. ![]() His first two books, Details of Deception and The Devil’s Staircase were advanced explorations of gambling style card material with methods that leave the audience in the dust. When I hear from Greg Chapman that he’s working on a new book, my ears perk up like a rabbit hearing about a new cabbage patch. ![]()
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